Further ReadingIntroduction: Writing Japanese HistoryAnderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (New York: Verso, 1991)
Barbier, Edward B., Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed through Natural Resource Exploitation (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Christian, David, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004)
Duara, Prasenjit, Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China (University of Chicago Press, 1995)
Merchant, Carolyn, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1980)
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation (Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1998)
Richards, John F., The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003)
Steffen, Will, Crutzen, Paul J., and McNeill, John R., ‘The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature?’, Ambio 36.8 (December 2007)
Walthall, Anne, Japan: A Cultural, Social, and Political History (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006)
Weber, Max, The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, trans. Gerth, Hans H. and intro. Yang, C. K. (New York: Macmillan Company, 1964).
The Birth of the Yamato State, 14,500 bce – 710 ceBrown, Delmer M., The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 1: Ancient Japan (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Farris, William Wayne, Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009)
Holcombe, Charles, The Genesis of East Asia, 221 bc–ad 907, Asian Interactions and Comparisons (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001)
Hudson, Mark J., Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999)
Imamura, Keiji, Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1996)
Kidder, Jr. J. Edward, Himiko and Japan’s Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History, and Mythology (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007)
Ooms, Herman, Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650–800 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009)
Piggott, Joan R., The Emergence of Japanese Kingship (Stanford University Press, 1997)
Walker, Brett L., The Lost Wolves of Japan, foreword by Cronon, William (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005).
The Courtly Age, 710–1185Borgen, Robert, Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1986)
The Diary of Lady Murasaki, trans. Richard Bowring (New York: Penguin Books, 1996)
Farris, William Wayne, Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009)
Farris, William Wayne, Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645–900 (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and distributed by Harvard University Press, 1985)
The Gossamer Years: A Diary by a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (Tokyo and Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1973)
Holcombe, Charles, The Genesis of East Asia, 221 bc–ad 907 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001)
Morris, Ivan, The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan, intro. Ruch, Barbara (New York and Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1964)
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to 697, trans. W. G. Aston, intro. Terence Barrow (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1972)
The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon, trans. Ivan Morris (New York: Penguin Books, 1967)
Shirane, Haruo, Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012)
Shirane, Haruo, ed., Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)
Walker, Brett L., The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001)
Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall, Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twentieth-Century Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center and distributed by Harvard University Press, 1998).
The Rise of Samurai Rule, 1185–1336Farris, William Wayne, Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan’s Military, 500–1300 (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1995)
Farris, William Wayne, Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009)
Farris, William Wayne, Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645–900 (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies and Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 24, Harvard University, 1985)
Friday, Karl F., Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan (Stanford University Press, 1992)
Goble, Andrew, Kenmu: Go-Daigo’s Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1996)
Ikegami, Eiko, The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995)
In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga’s Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan, trans. and interpretative essay by Thomas D. Conlan (Ithaca: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2001)
François Souyri, Pierre, The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society, trans. Roth, Käthe (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)
The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike, trans. A. L. Sadler (Rutland, VT & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1972)
Varley, Paul, Warriors of Japan, As Portrayed in the War Tales (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1994).
Medieval Japan and the Warring States Period, 1336–1573Berry, Mary Elizabeth, The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994)
Conlan, Thomas Donald, State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003)
Goble, Andrew Edmund, Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2011)
Hall, John Whitney, Keiji, Nagahara, and Yamamura, Kozo, eds., Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500–1650 (Princeton University Press, 1981)
Margulis, Lynn and Sagan, Dorion, Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (London: Allen & Unwin, 1987)
Richards, John F., The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003)
Souyri, Pierre François, The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society, trans. Roth, Käthe (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)
Totman, Conrad, The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan, foreword by Webb, Jr. James L. A. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989; reprint, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998)
Varley, H. Paul, The Ônin War: History of Its Origins and Background – With a Selective Translation of the Chronicle of Ônin (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1967).
Japan’s Encounter with Europe, 1543–1640Michael Cooper, S.J., comp., They Came to Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965)
Jannetta, Ann Bowman, Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan (Princeton University Press, 1987)
Marks, Robert B., The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century (New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007)
Pomeranz, Kenneth and Topik, Steven, The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, 2nd edition (Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2006)
Richards, John F., The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003)
Screech, Timon, The Lens Within the Heart: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002)
Smits, Gregory, Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999)
Sugimoto, Masayoshi and Swain, David L., Science and Culture on Traditional Japan, ad 600–1854 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978)
Toby, Ronald P., State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia and the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu (Stanford University Press, 1991).
Unifying the Realm, 1560–1603Berry, Mary Elizabeth, Hideyoshi (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982)
Hall, John Whitney, Keiji, Nagahara, and Yamamura, Kozo, eds., Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500–1650 (Princeton University Press, 1981)
Lamers, Jeroen, Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered (Leiden: Hôtei Publishing, 2000)
Totman, Conrad, Early Modern Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)
Totman, Conrad, The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan, foreword by Webb, Jr. James L. A. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989; reprint, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998).
Early Modern Japan, 1600–1800Berry, Mary Elizabeth, Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006)
Bashô, Matsuo, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, trans. Yuasa, Nobuyuki (New York: Penguin Books, 1966)
Hanley, Susan, Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997)
Howell, David L., Capitalism from Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995)
Howell, David L., Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005)
Ikegami, Eiko, Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Najita, Tetsuo, ed., Tokugawa Political Writings (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Najita, Tetsuo, Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudô Merchant Academy of Osaka (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Ooms, Herman, Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570–1680 (Princeton University Press, 1985)
Roberts, Luke S., Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Smith, Thomas C., The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan (Stanford University Press, 1959)
Smith, Thomas C., Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750–1920 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988)
Totman, Conrad, Early Modern Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)
Walker, Brett L., The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001)
Walker, Brett L., ‘Mamiya Rinzô and the Japanese Exploration of Sakhalin Island: Cartography, Ethnography, and Empire’, Journal of Historical Geography 33.2 (April 2007)
Yonemoto, Marcia, Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868) (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003).
The Rise of Imperial Nationalism, 1770–1854Burns, Susan L., Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003)
Harootunian, H. D., Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988)
Harootunian, H. D., Toward Restoration: The Growth of Political Consciousness in Tokugawa Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970)
Keene, Donald, The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720–1830 (Stanford University Press, 1952)
Koschmann, J. Victor, The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790–1864 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987)
Najita, Tetsuo, Japan: The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974)
Tonomura, Hitomi, Walthall, Anne, and Haruko, Wakita, eds., Women and Class in Japanese History (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1999)
Totman, Conrad, The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1980)
Vlastos, Stephen, Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986)
Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early Modern Japan: The ‘New Theses’ of 1825 (Cambridge, MA: Council on Easy Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1991)
Walthall, Anne, ed. and trans., Peasant Uprisings in Japan (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
Walthall, Anne, The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
Wilson, George M., Patriots and Redeemers in Japan: Motives in the Meiji Restoration (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
Meiji Enlightenment, 1868–1912The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, trans. Eiichi Kiyooka (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960)
Beasley, W. G., The Meiji Restoration (Stanford University Press, 1972)
Botsman, Daniel V., Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan (Princeton University Press, 2005)
Craig, Albert M., Chôshû in the Meiji Restoration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961)
Craig, Albert M., Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009)
Fujitani, T., Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, Press, 1996)
Gluck, Carol, Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton University Press, 1985)
Hanes, Jeffrey E., The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002)
Howell, David L., Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005)
Howland, Douglas R., Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002)
Jansen, Marius B., Sakamoto Ryôma and the Meiji Restoration (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961)
Jansen, Marius B. and Rozman, Gilbert, eds., Japan in Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton University Press, 1986)
Miyoshi, Masao, As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (New York and Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979)
Satow, Sir Ernest, A Diplomat in Japan: An Inner History of the Japanese Reformation (Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1983)
Sievers, Sharon L., Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan (Stanford University Press, 1983).
Meiji’s Discontents, 1868–1920Bowen, Roger W., Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan: A Study of Commoners in the Popular Rights Movement (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980)
Daikichi, Irokawa, The Culture of the Meiji Period, trans. Jansen, Marius B. (Princeton University Press, 1985)
Hane, Mikiso, Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan (New York: Pantheon Books, 1982)
Howell, David L., Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)
Ketelaar, James Edward, Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan (Princeton University Press, 1990)
Strong, Kenneth, Ox Against the Storm: A Biography of Tanaka Shôzô, Japan’s Conservationist Pioneer (New York: Routledge, 2005)
Thal, Sarah, Rearranging the Landscapes of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573–1912 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Walker, Brett L., The Lost Wolves of Japan, foreword Cronon, William (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005)
Walker, Brett L., Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan, foreword Cronon, William (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010).
The Birth of Japan’s Imperial State, 1800–1910Bartholomew, James R., The Formation of Science in Japan (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989)
Lee Bernstein, Gail, ed., Recreating Japanese Women, 1600–1945 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991)
Frühstück, Sabine, Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003)
Fujita, Fumiko, American Pioneers and the Japanese Frontier: American Experts in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994)
Garon, Sheldon, Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press, 1997)
A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things by Imanishi Kinji, trans. Pamela J. Asquith, Heita Kawakatsu, Shusuke Yagi, and Hiroyuki Takasaki (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002)
Johnson, William, The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1995)
Shigeru, Kayano, Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir, trans. Selden, Kyoko and Seldon, Lili (Boulder: Westview Press, 1980)
Siddle, Richard, Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan (London and New York: Routledge, 1996)
Patricia Tsurumi, E., Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan (Princeton University Press, 1990)
Walker, Brett L., ‘The Early Modern Japanese State and Ainu Vaccinations: Redefining the Japanese Body Politic, 1799–1868’, Past and Present 163 (May 1999).
Empire and Imperial Democracy, 1905–1931Beasley, W. G., Japanese Imperialism, 1894–1945 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
Ellis, Richard, The Empty Ocean (Washington, DC: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2003)
Ellis, Richard, Tuna: A Love Story (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008)
Garon, Sheldon, The State and Labor in Modern Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987)
Gordon, Andrew, Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991)
Gordon, Andrew, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Lewis, Michael, Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990)
Tak Matsusaka, Yoshihisa, The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2001)
McClain, James L., Japan: A Modern History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002)
Muscolino, Micah S., Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2009)
Najita, Tetsuo, Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise, 1905–1915 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967)
Pflugfelder, Gregory M. and Walker, Brett L., JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005)
Safina, Carl, Song for the Blue Ocean (New York: John Macrae Books/Henry Holt and Company, 1997)
Tsutsui, William, ‘The Pelagic Empire: Reconsidering Japanese Expansion’, in Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power, ed. Miller, Ian Jared, Thomas, Julia Adeney, and Walker, Brett L. (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2013)
Uchinada, Koryu, Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts, trans. McCarthy, Patrick (Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1999)
Young, Louise, Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998).
The Pacific War, 1931–45Bay, Alexander, Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012)
Bix, Herbert, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Tokyo: HarperCollins, 2000)
Brooks, Timothy, ed., Documents on the Rape of Nanking (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999)
Cook, Haruko Taya and Cook, Theodore F., Japan at War: An Oral History (New York: The New Press, 1992)
Dower, John W., War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986)
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 2005)
McClain, James L., Japan: A Modern History (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2002)
Myers, Ramon H. and Peattie, Mark R., eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895–1945 (Princeton University Press, 1984)
Miller, Ian Jared, The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2013)
Peattie, Mark R., Ishiwara Kanji and Japan’s Confrontation with the West (Princeton University Press, 1975)
Saburô, Ienaga, The Pacific War, 1931–1945 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1968)
Thomas, Julia Adeney, Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001)
Walker, Brett L., Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2010)
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Japan’s Post-War History, 1945–PresentDower, John W., Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9–11, Iraq (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010)
Dower, John. W., Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999)
Dower, J. W., Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878–1954 (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1979)
George, Timothy S., Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2001)
Gordon, Andrew, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Gordon, Andrew, ed., Postwar Japan as History (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)
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McCormack, Gavan, The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, revised edition, foreword by Field, Norma (New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2001)
Michiko, Ishimure, Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease, trans. Monnet, Livia (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003)
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Schilling, Mark, The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture (New York: Weatherhill Inc., 1997).
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Duus, Peter, ‘Dealing with Disaster’, in Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan’s 3–11, ed. Kingston, Jeff (London: Nissan Monograph Series, Routledge, 2012)
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Furukawa, Tetsushi, ‘Watsuji Tetsurô, the Man and His Work’, in Watsuji Tetsurô, Climate and Culture: A Philosophical Study, trans. Bownas, Geoffrey (Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, Ministry of Education, 1961)
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Mimura, Nobuo, Isobe, Masahiro, and Hosokawa, Yasushi, ‘Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Japanese Coastal Zones and Response Strategies’, in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Climate change 1995: The Science of Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
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Steinberg, Ted, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Thomas, Julia Adeney, Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001)
Vallianatos, Evaggelos, ‘The Nuclear Meltdown at Fukushima: Danger, Deception and Betrayal’, The Huffington Post (11 November 2013)
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